Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s Star Team has soundly beaten the Rushton Paray-led United Patriots in the United National Congress (UNC) internal elections.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of National Security says a new study by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on crime and criminality in Trinidad and Tobago, will play a crucial role in formulating strategies to combat criminal gangs in the country.

(Trinidad Guardian) On Tuesday, a significant hydrocarbon deposit was detected drifting from the gulf stream vessel near the Cove area in Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves says tears flowed from his eyes when he read Manning: Faith & Vision, the biography of close friend, the late prime minister Patrick Manning, written by historian Prof Bridget Brereton.

(Trinidad Express) The son of a murdered senior superintendent of police was killed in a mass shooting in Chase Village on Sunday night.

(Trinidad Express) A 15-year secondary schoolboy of Enterprise in Chaguanas was fatally stabbed on Sunday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Reggae artiste Anthony B called on Trinidad and Tobago to return to being a “heaven” and not degenerate into the crime-ridden place it appeared to be lately.

(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Energy and Energy Industries Stuart Young is confident that Trinidad and Tobago will return to “the heights of gas production” from 2027, as he led a strong defence of the Government’s energy policies in the Parliament on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Couva businessman Alan Babwah, 37, was killed during a home invasion on Friday night.

(Trinidad Express) A day after The Baking Room bakery found itself under heavy criticism for selling a beef pie teeming with maggots, the establishment was opened as usual for business.

(Trinidad Express) The father of Jayden Reyes, 21, who was gunned down on Sunday night at the Port of Spain General Hospital (PoSGH), has appealed to young men to not choose a life of crime but to aspire to greatness as his son did.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Caribbean Dawah Association is calling on the Government to clarify why the Immigration Division denied Islamic Scholar Sheik Uthmaan Ibn Farooq entry into T&T, classing him and members of his charity group as “undesirables”.

(Trinidad Guardian) A former health minister is warning the public that the steady rise in costs to provide free medical care to the population will eventually put the country in a financial bind.  

(Trinidad Express) Four men were fatally shot in an incident on Sunday night that began in Gonzales and ended in further bloodshed at the Port of Spain General Hospital.

(Trinidad Express) A year after his cousin was shot and killed, and there was an attempt to kill his brother and nephew, a South Oropouche man was gunned down outside his home on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has vowed to reopen the Petrotrin Refinery should she be re-elected prime minister in next year’s general election.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council’s (CXC) decision to remove the Agriculture Double Award from its syllabus has been described as “short-sighted” by agricultural economist Dr Omardath Maharaj, who believes this will have a ripple effect on food production in the Caribbean.

(Trinidad Guardian) The mas fraternity has been plunged into mourning following the death of eight-time San Fernando King of the Band winner Leroy Prieto.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police have charged Canadian YouTuber Chris Must List with sedition, a day after he was taken into custody by officers of the Special Investigation Unit in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.

…Energy Minister refers to global shift away from hydrocarbons (Trinidad Guardian) T&T has received six bids on four blocks from BP, Shell and EOG Resources in the 2023 shallow water auction to explore for oil and gas.